autotldr@lemmings.world
on 13 Jan 2024 01:40
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the “Hangover Whopper,” celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year’s with facial recognition.
“At the end of the year, it’s Friday every day, and the hangover kicks in,” a vaguely robotic voice says as images of cheeseburgers glitch in and out over fake computer code.
The Burger King software thought for a second, and then recommended the Double Whopper Jr. That’s only a one on the hangover scale — tell that to my headache — but I did earn a little discount for my privacy sacrifice: a coupon code for R$3.00, or about $0.62 in American dollars.
For the last decade, advocates raised alarms over the creeping spread of facial recognition, a technology that promises to destroy the few remaining shreds of privacy we have left.
Just last week, the FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition for five years after an investigation found the drugstore used a lazy implementation of the technology to falsely accuse thousands of people of shoplifting, including one incident involving an 11-year-old girl.
It’s also functionally useless for other things like measuring your emotions, detecting political affiliations, or finding you a date, despite the dozens of companies promising digital phrenology.
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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 02:01
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Its a trap!
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Jan 2024 02:05
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So, who is providing the software? Because that’s who is paying to get a unique data set of face images. Specifically Brazilian faces of people who either self-indentify as hung over or want to try to game the system for a discount. I’ll let you guess which population is going to be bigger.
Oh no, they’d get slightly less obscenely wealthy on the exploitation of ill-gotten biometrics *shockedpikachuface*
einlander@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 05:20
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Feels like their training AI with live data until it gets good at detecting drunk people. Law enforcement and private security will love it. Precrime detectors in Training.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Jan 2024 13:47
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But they’re not using drunk people, they’re using hung over people. Not sure why, it’s an interesting question.
Pappabosley@lemmy.world
on 15 Jan 2024 12:16
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Maybe it’s just burger king, so they can look at your selfies on Instagram and know when to fill your ad space with burgers 😜🍔
theodewere@kbin.social
on 13 Jan 2024 02:48
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AI that reads your face and starts cooking what you're hungry for is in the right direction.. that's more of the cities in the clouds, Jetsons world than the Phillip K. Dick kinda place that we're cultivating..
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de
on 13 Jan 2024 02:48
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Capitalist dystopia in its essence. Fetish for AI and normalization of mass surveillance, after all, AI’s need to be fed, right?
Chozo@kbin.social
on 13 Jan 2024 02:54
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If you're in line at Burger King, your life's already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de
on 13 Jan 2024 03:07
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I know but facial recognition is becoming more normalized than it should
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de
on 13 Jan 2024 03:03
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I don’t need to be a Burger King consumer (which I’m not) to consider this news a dystopia.
RisingSwell@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 03:55
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Hah, a line a burger king.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
on 13 Jan 2024 04:50
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I prefer Burger King over most restaurants.
I’m probably going to order a burger anyways so I don’t see the need to pay extra for a fancy one that I need a knife and fork to eat when I can get just as tasty burger from BK.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Jan 2024 05:07
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The real reason to go is the Bitties in the BK Lounge.
key@lemmy.keychat.org
on 13 Jan 2024 05:12
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Burger King where you live must be a hell of a lot better than the ones near me.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
on 13 Jan 2024 05:23
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Or I just have cheap taste buds. While to other people food is a pleasure to me it’s fuel.
I think you care food-pleasure just as much as most people. Otherwise why not eat something healthier, faster or cheaper. I like to think that i didn’t use to care much about taste before so for lunch i used to eat 1k kkcal in the form of a unflavoured, unsweetened meal replacement shake, took <5 min to prepare+eat+clean.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com
on 13 Jan 2024 13:52
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They mail 5$ coupons for 2 wopper meals. It’s hard to pass up.
With them being a franchising you sorta expect that
hubobes@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Jan 2024 09:32
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No other fast food chain here (we don’t have that many options) has as many vegetarian options, so if I crave a cheap mediocre burger it will probably be Burger King.
And now I get to accuse you of doing it on purpose!
Really though, being ugly is such a real disadvantage. You may as well have some financial burden lifted for it.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 05:05
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Legitimately thought this was from the Onion
eighthourlunch@kbin.social
on 13 Jan 2024 05:18
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They meant to say fecal recognition. They're struggling to determine the difference between a Whopper and a whopping dookie. No luck so far, and I doubt an app is going to help.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
on 13 Jan 2024 06:36
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Do the legal drug to let A.I descide if you had enough of it to get the shittiest meal possible for cheaper.
How do you know which language they are writing in?
geogle@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 15:01
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Got me
NegativeInf@lemmy.world
on 14 Jan 2024 18:40
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Based on syntax, use of indents for code blocking, and the comment hash, I’d say it’s meant to be python but has a bug. But it could always just be pseudo code with a mistake. But it doesn’t look like any single = conditional language I know.
It looks like pseudo code to me. But pseudo code doesn’t really have a standard, does it? So their personal flavor is perfectly acceptable and correct (single equals acting as comparison). We know what they mean, what they’re trying to convey – we get the joke. No need to pick it apart. 👍
NegativeInf@lemmy.world
on 15 Jan 2024 02:10
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True, I wasn’t intending to be nasty. I was more responding to the “How do you know” in a general sense of how one COULD assign it a language. No harm meant at all.
That’s a tiny microcosm of alcohol culture. Would you like to comment on the right way to drink scotch, or what characteristics make a bottle of fermented grape juice worth $10,000? Maybe have some blood of your savior?
Maggoty@lemmy.world
on 14 Jan 2024 17:20
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It’s not real scotch unless it has a square foot of peat served next to it.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca
on 14 Jan 2024 17:28
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Brains love creating new neural pathways.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
on 14 Jan 2024 01:37
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It’s not alcoholism to be hung over lol
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world
on 14 Jan 2024 02:25
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Its brazil dude they have cocaine broblems
Siegfried@lemmy.world
on 14 Jan 2024 16:31
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If your dudes are giving you broblems, then im afraid it is time for a change
yesdogishere@kbin.social
on 16 Jan 2024 05:53
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I always look hungover. It’s great as I’ve had 6 burgers for free.
victorz@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 14:22
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Wait, I’m not browsing NotTheOnion??
brlemworld@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 16:58
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Why would anybody would Burger King in any state of being?
ripcord@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 2024 17:04
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At least 7 you for one is happenstance
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world
on 14 Jan 2024 02:26
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drunk too am i
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
on 13 Jan 2024 04:35
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Joke’s on them. I stop going in to not have my face scanned and then just starve.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
on 14 Jan 2024 21:23
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Every day I thank the universe I learned how to cook for myself
CADmonkey@lemmy.world
on 15 Jan 2024 19:48
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Two things have saved me money in this life - being able to cook, and being able to fix things.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the “Hangover Whopper,” celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year’s with facial recognition.
“At the end of the year, it’s Friday every day, and the hangover kicks in,” a vaguely robotic voice says as images of cheeseburgers glitch in and out over fake computer code.
The Burger King software thought for a second, and then recommended the Double Whopper Jr. That’s only a one on the hangover scale — tell that to my headache — but I did earn a little discount for my privacy sacrifice: a coupon code for R$3.00, or about $0.62 in American dollars.
For the last decade, advocates raised alarms over the creeping spread of facial recognition, a technology that promises to destroy the few remaining shreds of privacy we have left.
Just last week, the FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition for five years after an investigation found the drugstore used a lazy implementation of the technology to falsely accuse thousands of people of shoplifting, including one incident involving an 11-year-old girl.
It’s also functionally useless for other things like measuring your emotions, detecting political affiliations, or finding you a date, despite the dozens of companies promising digital phrenology.
The original article contains 591 words, the summary contains 213 words. Saved 64%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Its a trap!
So, who is providing the software? Because that’s who is paying to get a unique data set of face images. Specifically Brazilian faces of people who either self-indentify as hung over or want to try to game the system for a discount. I’ll let you guess which population is going to be bigger.
Taking advantage of inebriated people to hand over their biometrics, not even for a free burger, but a discounted burger.
Formerly inebriated people.
A free burger would make for a very expensive data set methinks.
Oh no, they’d get slightly less obscenely wealthy on the exploitation of ill-gotten biometrics *shockedpikachuface*
Feels like their training AI with live data until it gets good at detecting drunk people. Law enforcement and private security will love it. Precrime detectors in Training.
But they’re not using drunk people, they’re using hung over people. Not sure why, it’s an interesting question.
Maybe it’s just burger king, so they can look at your selfies on Instagram and know when to fill your ad space with burgers 😜🍔
AI that reads your face and starts cooking what you're hungry for is in the right direction.. that's more of the cities in the clouds, Jetsons world than the Phillip K. Dick kinda place that we're cultivating..
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Capitalist dystopia in its essence. Fetish for AI and normalization of mass surveillance, after all, AI’s need to be fed, right?
If you're in line at Burger King, your life's already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.
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It’s called a joke.
I know but facial recognition is becoming more normalized than it should
I don’t need to be a Burger King consumer (which I’m not) to consider this news a dystopia.
Hah, a line a burger king.
I prefer Burger King over most restaurants.
I’m probably going to order a burger anyways so I don’t see the need to pay extra for a fancy one that I need a knife and fork to eat when I can get just as tasty burger from BK.
The real reason to go is the Bitties in the BK Lounge.
Burger King where you live must be a hell of a lot better than the ones near me.
Or I just have cheap taste buds. While to other people food is a pleasure to me it’s fuel.
I think you care food-pleasure just as much as most people. Otherwise why not eat something healthier, faster or cheaper. I like to think that i didn’t use to care much about taste before so for lunch i used to eat 1k kkcal in the form of a unflavoured, unsweetened meal replacement shake, took <5 min to prepare+eat+clean.
They mail 5$ coupons for 2 wopper meals. It’s hard to pass up.
With them being a franchising you sorta expect that
No other fast food chain here (we don’t have that many options) has as many vegetarian options, so if I crave a cheap mediocre burger it will probably be Burger King.
What? Their fries are so good tho.
LOL
Now everyone’s gonna be going around looking like shit for some extra pocket money.
Some of us always look like shit.
And now I get to accuse you of doing it on purpose!
Really though, being ugly is such a real disadvantage. You may as well have some financial burden lifted for it.
Legitimately thought this was from the Onion
They meant to say fecal recognition. They're struggling to determine the difference between a Whopper and a whopping dookie. No luck so far, and I doubt an app is going to help.
Do the legal drug to let A.I descide if you had enough of it to get the shittiest meal possible for cheaper.
Tastes real good when you’re hung over though
Me with my eternally stoned looking face
A boring dystopia
I don’t understand the how this positively indicates a dystopia.
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How do you know which language they are writing in?
Got me
Based on syntax, use of indents for code blocking, and the comment hash, I’d say it’s meant to be python but has a bug. But it could always just be pseudo code with a mistake. But it doesn’t look like any single = conditional language I know.
It looks like pseudo code to me. But pseudo code doesn’t really have a standard, does it? So their personal flavor is perfectly acceptable and correct (single equals acting as comparison). We know what they mean, what they’re trying to convey – we get the joke. No need to pick it apart. 👍
True, I wasn’t intending to be nasty. I was more responding to the “How do you know” in a general sense of how one COULD assign it a language. No harm meant at all.
Oh, gosh, it’s my mistake. I confused you with the person who made the initial nit-pick about the equal sign. Hey, have a good day! 😊
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So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?
If you take a real close look at alcohol culture you might notice hock shockingly widesperead, ancient and insane it all is
When I was my kids age, it’s what was fun. Now, it’s been mostly replaced by gaming with friends.
That’s a tiny microcosm of alcohol culture. Would you like to comment on the right way to drink scotch, or what characteristics make a bottle of fermented grape juice worth $10,000? Maybe have some blood of your savior?
It’s not real scotch unless it has a square foot of peat served next to it.
Brains love creating new neural pathways.
It’s not alcoholism to be hung over lol
Its brazil dude they have cocaine broblems
If your dudes are giving you broblems, then im afraid it is time for a change
I always look hungover. It’s great as I’ve had 6 burgers for free.
Wait, I’m not browsing NotTheOnion??
Why would anybody would Burger King in any state of being?
At least 7 you for one is happenstance
drunk too am i
Joke’s on them. I stop going in to not have my face scanned and then just starve.
Every day I thank the universe I learned how to cook for myself
Two things have saved me money in this life - being able to cook, and being able to fix things.